I don’t suppose you spend much time thinking about mechanical elephants; I can’t say the subject would figure among my first waking thoughts, either. But — according to the *I’m Learning to Share blog — Britain could be considered the birthplace of the mechanical elephant. Not only that — but the late and supposedly great (I don’t find him that funny) comedian Peter Sellers once bought a mechanical elephant to ‘fall back on’ in case his career went kaput.
You never know when this kind of information will come in handy — here’s a mechanical elephant for you to look at:
* Via Bibi’s Box – another one of my favourite blogs.
